The second phase of negotiations for the next stage of the agreement with the hostage will begin on Monday while Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to arrive in Washington, the Prime Minister’s office (PMO) announced on Saturday.
Netanyahu will be the first national leader that US President Trump will meet after his inauguration and, according to the PMO, the two should discuss Gaza and hostages, dealing with all the components of the Iranian axis and other main problems.
A source from Hamas shared similar news with the Arab media al-Arabby al-Jadeed on Saturday, reporting that the group had been informed by the mediators that the second phase of negotiations would begin in Doha on Monday.
The source added that the mediators of Qatar, Egypt and the United States would be present.
Hamas would have told mediators that it was ready to engage in the second phase, continued the source.
Later in the evening, Netanyahu spoke with the special envoy of American president Donald Trump, Steve Witkoff, said the PMO.
Witkoff later spoke with the Prime Minister of Qatar and the Egyptian representatives.
Hamas spokesperson Jihad Taha told Al-Arabby al-Jadee that Israel created obstacles in negotiations in the form of “escape, procrastination and obstruction of the implementation of what was agreed “.
Al-Arabby al-Jadeed also indicated that it had been exclusively informed that the Egyptian and Qataris mediators had transmitted an angry message to the Israeli government concerning “its approach to treat the cease-fire agreement and its deliberate obstruction .
First phase of the agreement
The first phase of the agreement, which was signed by the two parties in Doha on January 17, presented the details of the release of 33 hostages from Hamas and several thousand Palestinian prisoners from Israeli prisons.
Thirteen hostages have been published so far. These are Liri Albag, Karina Ariev, Agam Berger, Romi Gonen, Daniella Gilboa, Emily Damari, Arbel Yehoud, Naama Levy, Gadi Moshe Mozes, Keith Siegal, Ofer Kalderon, Doron Steinbrecher and Year Bibas,.
Itzhak Elgarat, Ohad Ben Ami, Ariel Bibas, Yarden Bibas, Kfir Bibas, Shiri Bibas, Sagi Dekel Chen, Iair Horn, Omer Wenkert, Alexandre Sasha Troufanov, Ohad Yahalomi, Eliya Cohen or Levy, Oded Lififfz, Avraham (Avera) Mengisto, Shlomo Mantzur, Tsachi Idan, Opers Kalderon, Tal Shoham, Omer Shem Tov, Hisham Al-Sayed and Eli Sharabi. The list that discloses the life status of hostages is still in captivity has not yet been published.
